Documentation Toolkit for SharePoint is an application designed to help SharePoint admins to automatically generate farm documentation, compare farms and track configuration changes.
Sample of documentation:
CSS Reference Chart for SharePoint 2007 (Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services v3) by Heather Solomon
SharePoint 2010 CSS Reference Chart by SharePoint Experts, Inc., Heather Solomon and Dustin Miller
As Jeff said, if you want “Timer Jobs” you need to first know to look under “Monitoring”… but who remembers whole structure of central administration? This was main reason why Jeff came up with idea of one page with all central administration links
How to create, and deploy custom Document ID provider as a sample and screencast by Yaroslav Pentsarskyy & Habañero Consulting Group
Creating SharePoint 2010 custom document ID provider
Deploy your custom SharePoint 2010 document id provider
25 min screencast on Extending SharePoint 2010 document ID provider
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263199%28office.14%29.aspx
Models are 34-by-44-inch posters that detail a specific technical area. These models are intended to be used with corresponding articles on TechNet. These models are created by using Office Visio 2007. You can modify the Visio files to illustrate how you plan to incorporate Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Products in your own environment.
SharePoint 2010 Products Deployment
Visio (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=183024)
PDF (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=183025)
XPS (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=183026)
Presents such deployment-related information as the different deployment stages and environments, plus a flowchart that illustrates the steps for installing and configuring SharePoint 2010 Products.
Services in SharePoint 2010 Products
Visio (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=167090)
PDF (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=167092)
XPS (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=167091)
Describes and illustrates the services architecture, including and common ways to deploy services in your overall solution design.
Cross-farm Services in SharePoint 2010 Products
Visio (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=167093)
PDF (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=167095)
XPS (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=167094)
Illustrates how to deploy services across farms to provide centralized administration of services.
Topologies for SharePoint Server 2010
Visio (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=167087)
PDF (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=167089)
XPS (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=167088)
Describes common ways to build and scale farm topologies, including planning which servers to start services on.
Hosting Environments in SharePoint 2010 Products
Visio (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=167084)
PDF (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=167086)
XPS (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=167085)
Summarizes the support for hosting environments and illustrates common hosting architectures.
Search Technologies for SharePoint 2010 Products
Visio (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=167731)
PDF (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=167733)
XPS (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=167732)
Compares and contrasts the search technologies that work with SharePoint Products 2010:
Search Environment Planning for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010
Visio (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=167734)
PDF (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=167736)
XPS (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=167735)
Walks through primary architecture design decisions for search environments.
Search Architectures for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010
Visio (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=167737)
PDF (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=167739)
XPS (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=167738)
Details the physical and logical architecture components that make up a search system and illustrates common search architectures.
Design Search Architectures for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010
Visio (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=167740)
PDF (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=167742)
XPS (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=167741)
Walks through the initial design steps to determine a basic design for a SharePoint Server 2010 search architecture.
Business Connectivity Services Model
Visio (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=165565)
PDF (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=165566)
XPS (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=165571)
Microsoft Business Connectivity Services are a set of services and features in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 and Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 that support integrating data from external systems into solutions based on Microsoft SharePoint Server and Microsoft SharePoint Foundation. This model poster describes the architecture of Microsoft Business Connectivity Services in SharePoint Server 2010 and provides information about how to create solutions that are based on the service.
Use this model with the following article: Business Connectivity Services overview (SharePoint Server 2010)
Content Deployment in SharePoint Server 2010
Visio (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=179391&clcid=0×409)
PDF (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=179523&clcid=0×409)
XPS (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=179524&clcid=0×409)
This model describes the content deployment feature in SharePoint Server 2010. It includes information about the following:
Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Upgrade Planning
Visio (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=167098)
PDF (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=167099)
XPS (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=167100)
This model covers planning for an upgrade from Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 to SharePoint Server 2010. It includes information about the following:
Use this model with the following article: Upgrading to SharePoint Server 2010
Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Upgrade Approaches
Visio (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=167101)
PDF (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=167102)
XPS (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=167103)
This model helps you understand the in-place, database attach, and hybrid approaches to upgrading from Office SharePoint Server 2007 to SharePoint Server 2010.
Use this model with the following articles:
Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 — Test Your Upgrade Process
Visio (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=167104)
PDF (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=167105)
XPS (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=167106)
This model explains the methodology for testing the upgrade process before upgrading from Office SharePoint Server 2007 to SharePoint Server 2010.
Use this model with the following article: Use a trial upgrade to find potential issues (SharePoint Server 2010)
Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 — Services Upgrade
Visio (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=167107)
PDF (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=167108)
XPS (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=167109)
This model covers upgrading services from Office SharePoint Server 2007 to SharePoint Server 2010.
Getting started with business intelligence in SharePoint Server 2010
Visio (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=167082)
PDF (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=167170)
XPS (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=167171)
This model covers an overview of business intelligence in SharePoint Server and provides you with the following information.
Recently I’ve been searching for a way how to make SQL side of Sharepoint nice and clean. Thanks to Todd Klindt, I’ve been able to achieve this without any serious problem.
In his article it’s pretty nicely described the process how to get rid of the GUID from the name of the configuration database who, as all you know, gets created in the installation process and we have no control in the beginning to change its name.
Todd’s Klindt article: “Get the GUID out of SharePoint databases”
In this blog post, Erika Ehrli announced start of a series of posts that will guide you through the most interesting 2010 features and resources available for developers.
Now starts by introducing the top places/content which recommends if you want to learn more about Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 development.
Jeff Dalton: Adventures In SharePoint Land : http://sharepoint.nailhead.net/2010/02/unhandled-exceptions-that-can-crash.html
His team discovered some nastiness with unhandled exceptions inside their custom SharePoint code. Specifically they found that unhandled exceptions inside of SharePoint.Publishing.LoginRunningOperationJob can result an IIS Application Pool crash.
The reason is because this class puts the delegate code onto a separate thread that when aborted can leave the Application Pool in an unstable state. Which can (and does) result in an Application Pool recycle (which is bad for very large SharePoint sites that take a few minutes to spin-up).
So you need to make sure that your delegate code is wrapped in try/catch and do NOT throw the error from inside your catch (same as unhandled exception).
Summary: Walk through how to customize the Content Query Web Part (CQWP) in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 to query content across multiple sites in a site collection and display the results in any way that XSL can support. Learn how to get similar results when customizing the CQWP does not meet your needs. (20 printed pages)
Robert Bogue, Thor Projects
January 2010
Applies to: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
Download the code samples that accompany this article: SharePoint Content Query Web Part Examples
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